The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-04-16
CATHOLIC NEWS.
RELIGIOUS Notes.

The month OF April is dedicated TO
the Resurrection.
Rev. Jos. Kruse, of st. Roses Con-
vent, La Crosse, is very sick.
There are $4,000 German Catholics
in New York and ~ churches.
Rev. Father Weinegen, of the Alex
ian hospital at Oshkosh is dead
Mgr. Batz celebrated High Mass at
St. Mary's Church, Milwaukee, last
Sunday.
Rev. Nj. Brennan, lately Of Wakonda,
Oak, is now officiating at St. Mary's
Church, Hudson, New York.
st. Mary's Church, of Fort Madison,
Ia, will complete it's tower this sum-
mer. The work will cost between
$4,000 and $4,000.
One of the last acts OF the Eorty-ninth
Congress was to remit the back taxes
on St. Domjnick' S Church. Washington,
amounting to $4,000
Archbishop Riordan has established
uniformity Of textbooks in the paro-
chial schools throughout the archdio-
cese OF San Francisco.
Rev. John A.. Maloney, I4azarist, has
been transferred from Baltimore to
Chicago, where he becomes pastor Of
ST. Vincent's Church.
The Rev. Father Tscheeder, Of the
Sacred Heart, Chicago. has been in
Fort Madison, Iowa, during the week
assisting in a retreat given there.
The Rev. Father Damon was tire
celebrant of the Holy Week ceremonies
in the Sacred Heart Church, Chicago.
He preached the passion sermon.
The young ladies OF st. Elizabeth's
parish, Chicago. the Rev. Father Dan
Riordan, pastor, will give a concert for
the benefit Of the church in the Madi-
son Street Theater, April %.
With trowel in hand and trough of
mortar by his side, Bishop Wigger, sur
rounded by dozen clergymen, laid the
cornerstone of the first Catholic church
that has ever been built in WeehaEken,
N. j.
The Rev. D. B. Twoomey, late as
sistant pastor OF All Saints Church:
Chicago, has been appointed pas
tor of st. Columtkill's Church, in
place of tie Rev. Father Butler, who
has left the diocese.
bishop Marty while in Washington
c3rsecrated cflalice in St. Matthew's
Church. The chalice was a present
from the Tabernacle Society, Of Wash
ington, and Will be sent to ST. Bene-
diets Station, Dakota.
The little squirt Of heresy called the
s'Italian Church, which sq11irned in
under Victor Emanuel, has died out.
All the surviving apostates have be-
come humbly penitent: and with their
pseudo bishop cast themselves at the
feet Of Leo XIII.
Sister Margaret Brennan died re-
Gently at the Convent Of the Sacred
Heart, No. 40 West Seventeenth street,
New York, aged rs years. The Sister
entered the convent forty years ago.
and since that time was engaged III the J
benefit OF the Order.
The Pope's brief to Bishop Ireland
on the temperance question has been
issued. In it the Pope praises the
Catholic Abstinence Union, comments
on the deplorable nature Of the evils
caused by intemperance, and urges
pastors to increase their efforts TO eN~
tirpate the plague Of drunken
Three Fathers of Mercy from the
Mother House at Vinelano, New Jer-
sey, arrived recently in Green Bay, Wis
They are to assume the charge Of the
parish at Bay Settlement and the ad-
joing missions. The Father Superior is
G. B. Martin, and his assistants are
Rev. Frs. Felix Rocagel and II. Bruins
WndthOrSt, the German Catholic |
leader, is a very small man. When he
was student a big fellow with whom
he was having an argument, said to him.
'sYou had better stop wagging your
tongue or will put you i'll my pocket. ~
To which Windthorst gave the quick
retort: "Y GU had BETTER put me in
your head where you have more ROOM"
A splendid new banner belonging to
St. Joseph's Benevolent Society at Lux
enburg, and furnished by the Sisters of
Winona, Mimi, at cost of $7S, was
blessed by Rev. A. j. Drees, pastor of
the church, The banner has an appro-
pirate inscription on one side and a
beautiful oil painting, representing the
patron saint and infant Saviour, on the
other. The society is in a fourishing
II members.
At least ten thousand people were
out week ago last Sunday afternoon
to witness the laying OF the corner
stone Of the Sacred Heart Church. Du-